Grouper

Overview

The 12th full length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning 15 years.

Shade as an Album

She characterizes Shade as an album about respite and the coast poetically and literally.

Framing and Memory

How we frame ourselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames ourselves memories and experiences carried forward mapping our connection to place.

An Ode to Blue

An ode to blue. What lives in shade.

Songs and Themes

Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love.

Connections to Regions

Deep connections to the Bay Area, and the North Coast, with its unique moods of solitude, beauty, and isolation a place described and transformed by the chaos and power of river-mouth, wild maritime storms, columns of mist that rise up unexpectedly on the road at night.

Recording History

Portions were recorded on Mount Tamalpais during a self made residency years back, other pieces made longer ago in Portland, while the rest were tracked during more recent sessions in Astoria.

Framed by

Throughout, Harris threads a hidden radiant language of voice, disquiet, and guitar, framed by